Nutritional status and health outcomes for older people with dementia living in institutions

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 470-477

  Lou, Meei Fang ^a   Dai, Yu Tzu ^a   Huang, Guey Shiun ^a   Yu, Po Jui ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Empirical research report; Health outcomes; Long term care; Nursing; Nutritional status; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; STANDARD; TAIWAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEEDING METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TAIWAN;

EID: 35548947591     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04442.x     Document Type: Article

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